Porty shootout results

FriendlyHammer wrote: If you believe that, I've got some Ultralip glides and some Turbotek ZX7 equipment to sell you.

I know I have said this somewhere before, but everyone looks and talks-up vac power, pressure power and heat power more and more and more. And, once this high-powered brute is purchased it rapidly diminishes in power due to poor preventative maintenance.

We see it daily in our service department.

Filters do not get cleaned often enough diminishing air-flow. Heat exchangers do not get de-sclaed diminishing heat. Pressure regulators are allowed to leak-through and pumps hardly ever get oiled and greased properly. But, the biggest problem is that most machines purchased basically all come with the same wand made by the few wand manufacturers who pound them out cheap with very little thought as to the proper aerodynamics that a wand should have to be super efficient.

Examples are: look at the wasted heat that rises from and above a wand when cleaning with high-heat. You pay extra in that truckmount to get extra heat and blow it at the wand level. A good wand should come corral that heat and use it on the carpet and not heat the air above it. Weld-burs on the inside trap lint and buildup beaver dams retarding air-flow. When was the last time you put a hangar up your wand and flushed it well? Think what water and air will do in a hurricane.

The reason why someone has not designed a wand with hurricane simulations is because cleaners only want to pay $250 for a wand and not allowing inventors to produce close to perfection. Look at wands, 10 manufacturers have simply copied the first design of years ago. Very little resource and development and yet people like Rotovac and Hydramaster have developed rotary agitation wands to make the cleaners job easier. Few are sold compared to the blood, sweat and tears wands that tire you out and perform inconsistent cleaning.

Like doug says…It’s only my opinion.

I agree 175 feet without an inline power booster is stretching it. However I personally have gone over 125 feet with a Recoil 3HP with only 2" vacuum hose . I had a propane heater and good chems and the job turned out fine. It was not an easy one either. It was a home for the some developmentally disabled individuals .  Food and beverage stains as well as pet problems.